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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Add per-process flag to control thp
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:45:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130805144544.GX27162@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130803170102.GD32568@redhat.com>

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 07:01:02PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/02, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> >
> > This patch implements functionality to allow processes to disable the use of
> > transparent hugepages through the prctl syscall.
> >
> > We've determined that some jobs perform significantly better with thp disabled,
> > and we needed a way to control thp on a per-process basis, without relying on
> > madvise.
> 
> Well, I think the changelog should explain why madvise() is bad.

It would be good to describe which jobs and why thp cannot be fixed for
these.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02 20:57 [PATCHv2] Add per-process flag to control thp Alex Thorlton
2013-08-03 17:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 14:45   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-08-05 15:12     ` Alex Thorlton
2013-08-05 15:05   ` Alex Thorlton
2013-08-05 15:09   ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-05 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-06 15:08   ` Alex Thorlton
2013-08-06 16:04     ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-08  3:49     ` David Rientjes
2013-08-11 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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